For while words and ‘talking therapies’ can often help us define and cope with the problems in our lives, they’re not the only way.

One of these is experiential knowledge of self, which can sometimes leave words – both spoken and written – far, far behind. And perhaps experiences and thoughts can’t always be easily translated into words in the first place. Perhaps, as the poet Kahlil Gibran noted, “thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly”.

So how might you help your thoughts escape the world of words – in your mind, your mouth or your journal – and let them fly wherever they’re drawn to?